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The Amistad Research Center's anniversary comes one year after the center faced devastating federal funding cuts, ...
Alice Williams Zeno spent her days tending to someone else’s household, working as a domestic for novelist Grace King. But ...
The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act is one of the most important federal laws affecting Tribal ...
Beyond a much-publicized bill stripping a clerk’s position from an exonerated man, the legislature has a slate of bills set ...
A federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled that the bill, SB 256, is unconstitutional, issuing a temporary restraining order ...
It is commonly believed that enslaved women were relegated to work in the plantation Big House while men worked in the fields ...
A new congressional map is likely to retain one majority-Black district, lawmaker says, but it may be based in Baton Rouge ...
Mayor Helena Moreno is holding a press conference on Tuesday (May 5) to talk more about the settlement with the Orleans Parish School Board.
Justice Samuel Alito halted for at least a week a lower federal court’s decision to ban access to mifepristone, an abortion ...
Beyond a much-publicized bill stripping a clerk’s position from an exonerated man, the legislature has a slate of bills set ...
Gov. Jeff Landry postponed six congressional primary elections after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Louisiana’s redistricting ...